Chopin (Frederic) Park

Congrats to Damian Acosta for being nominated for the Walter Payton award for Junior Bear Football!

Our 2018 Jr. Bear Football Team!

Welcome to Chopin Park!

Meet our staff at Chopin Park!

Check out our tennis court!

Anyone up for a game of soccer?

We love our teens!

Working on homework!

Bella is having fun with the marble maze!

Location:

3420 N. Long Ave.
Chicago, IL 60641

Supervisor: Luigi Derango

Phone Numbers:
Main
(773) 685-3247

Features:Parks

Hours

Park
Hours

Sunday:

6:00 am-11:00 pm

Monday:

6:00 am-11:00 pm

Tuesday:

6:00 am-11:00 pm

Wednesday:

6:00 am-11:00 pm

Thursday:

6:00 am-11:00 pm

Friday:

6:00 am-11:00 pm

Saturday:

6:00 am-11:00 pm

Fieldhouse Hours

Sunday

Closed

Monday

10:00 am-8:00 pm

Tuesday

10:00 am-8:00 pm

Wednesday

10:00 am-8:00 pm

Thursday

10:00 am-8:00 pm

Friday

10:00 am-8:00 pm

Saturday

Closed

Description

Chopin Park totals 9.28 acres and is situated in the Portage Park community. The historic fieldhouse contains an assembly hall with a stage and seven rooms, where many preschool and music classes take place. The park also offers a Park Kids after-school program that attracts local students.

Beyond its expansive welcome garden and fieldhouse, Chopin Park offers athletes a senior and two junior baseball fields, a softball field, a combination football/soccer field, four basketball standards, four tennis courts, four horseshoe courts and a sand volleyball court. Young children enjoy the park’s playground and spray pool. Young park-goers can play flag football, floor hockey, indoor soccer, and outdoor tennis at the facility.

On the cultural side, Chopin Park offers arts and crafts, guitar, piano and other instrumental music classes. In the summer, youth attend day camp, and pre-teens participate in leadership camp. Adults participate in a range of activities, including piano, instrumental music classes, and 16” softball. Parents gather at Chopin Park with their preschoolers for moms, pops and tots. Preschool, sing-a-long, music and movement, and arts and crafts classes are also available for preschool-age residents.

History

Chopin Park was created by the Old Portage Park District, one of 22 independent park commissions consolidated into the Chicago Park District in 1934. In 1930, the Old Portage Park District purchased just over 8 acres in the then predominantly Polish southeastern corner of the rapidly-growing Portage Park community. The park was soon well-equipped with baseball and football fields, tennis and horse shoe courts, and a playground. The site also included an impressive brick fieldhouse with a 300-seat assembly/banquet hall and various game and club rooms. The Georgian Revival-style fieldhouse was identical to those at the Old Portage Park District's nearby Shabbona and Wilson Parks. Recognizing the Polish heritage of many area residents, the Old Portage Park District named the park for the great Polish-born French composer and pianist Frederic Francois Chopin (1810--1849). A child prodigy, Chopin first played in public at the age of eight, and began composing shortly thereafter. He is best known for his many compositions for solo piano. In the mid-1930s, not long after Chopin Park became part of the unified Chicago Park District, the new agency remodelled the fieldhouse. Over the years, the facility drew neighborhood residents for a wide variety of indoor activities, including pre-school and mothers' clubs, gymnastics, social dancing, crafts, citizenship classes. Particularly appropriate given its name, a local orchestra practiced at the fieldhouse, performing concerts in the auditorium. The Chicago Park District also made various outdoor improvements, including constructing a wading pool with sand pits and shelters in 1948, installing a basketball court in 1975, and regularly rehabilitating various park facilities and greenspaces.

Programs

Registration dates vary by park. The dates listed below are specific to this park.

2019 Spring: Zone 1: West of California

Most programs run from Monday, April 01 to Sunday, June 09.

Online registration begins Monday, February 25.

In-person registration begins Saturday, March 02.

Click on a program name below for description, availability and to add to your wish list or register online (if available). For activities that have already begun, registration is ongoing while spots are available.